Improvement in fire-kindlers



1.W. BYNGN.

Fire-Kindlers. 0,149,435 PatentedAprimmM.

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UNITED STATES PATENT (DEEIGEo JOHN XV. BYNON, OFAYONKERS, 'NEV YORK.

llVlPROVEMENT IN FIRE-KINDLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 149,436, dated April 7,1874; application filed February 26, 1874.

of an inflammable compound, such as mn,

tallolv, and sawdust, each of said cakes being provided with a wick.protruding therefrom,

and said cakes being capable of detachment, one from the other, asrequired for use.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a view in perspectiveof a cake of rire-lighters constructed in accordance with myimprovement, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of one of the lighterswith attached wick.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral flgnres. Y A A represent a number of lire-lighters joinedtogether in a cake, and capable of detachment, the onel from the other,as required. In each of these irelighters is inserted a wick, B,arranged to protrude beyond the end or ends of the nre-lighter. Saidwiel; may be saturated with the same materials, or certain of them, asused in the body of the lighter. Such wick may either be molded into thebody of the lighter, or may have the body composition applied to it inany other way, as by dipping, or otherwise, leaving the wiel; onlycovered by the more inflammable portions of the compound. By means ofthis wick, the lighter can be much more easily ignited through thebottom of the grate of the tireplace, instead of being ignited, as isnow usually done, before putting it into the grate or stove, andbuilding the lire on top of it, which mode of ignition is objectionable,inasmuch as the lighter is partly burned before the fire can be built,and there is much offensive odor consequent on the previous ignition ofthe lighter.

By the arrangement of a wick within the lighter these objections areavoided, there being no necessityr to ignite the lighter before placingit in its place on the grate. but simply to see that the wick of thelighter is made to protrude through the grate, when the same can bereadily lighted from below after the ire has been built, which by meansofthe wick may be done before the fire is ignited.

l. am aware that kawri gum, rosin, and alcohol have been dissolved andmixed together, and sawdust added, and all mixed until a paste isformed, and 'then molded or pressed into cakes and allowed to dry, whenthey are ready for use in kindling tire; but such is not my invention.

What I claim as my invention is A tire-lighter composed ot' a series ofinflammable cakes, A, each of which is provided with a wick, B,protruding therefrom, and said cakes being capable ot' detachment, theone from the other, as required for use, as herein shown and described.

JOHN lV. BYNON.

fitnesses BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN, MICHAEL RYAN.

